Last July Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua warned diplomats that they would have to sign 'performance contracts to market our products abroad' a broad hint that the government wants them to become salespeople rather than traditional diplomats...

Questions multiply about right-hand man Gachagua Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's position is in flux ahead of the 2027 election...

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been gradually sidelined while Musalia Mudavadi with foreign affairs now part of his prime cabinet secretary portfolio has become the key figure in Ruto's government (AC Vol 64 No 21 Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats)...

Corruption cases against Ruto's' cabinet secretary for gender and culture Aisha Jumwa and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua were abandoned by state prosecutors within weeks of Ruto's election victory (Dispatches 19/10/22 Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases)...

Mudavadi poses no threat to Ruto as an election rival though his elevation will cause anxiety for Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who has spent much of the last year trying to shore up his own influence in the Ruto administration...

Allies of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua fear that rapprochement between Ruto and Odinga would sideline their man in a repeat of the 'handshake' politics that sidelined Ruto for most of the Jubilee government's second term (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

Meanwhile the steady Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has emerged as the administration's international ambassador-at-large while the less experienced Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is focused on domestic matters...

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua estimated that Odinga's first day of protests on 20 March cost the economy Ksh2 billion (US$20 million – Dispatches 21/3/23 Raila takes to the streets)...

Dorcas Gachagua wife of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua herself a pastor was one of the high-profile attendees of a prayer rally hosted by Odero last December at the Moi International Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi...